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LUCKY THEM: Written and directed by Megan Griffiths, Lucky Them features Toni Collette as a music journalist tasked with finding out what happened to a rocker who disappeared at the peak of his fame. Oliver Platt stars as her editor and Thomas Haden Church is a documentarian who joins her on the journey, but I just really want to see Collette, who should really be in many more films.

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BLACK COAL, THIN ICE: One of my favorite genres of film is film noir, so Black Coal, Thin Ice, is very high on my list of films to see. Set in northern China, a pair of detectives is on the hunt for a serial killer. The Hollywood Reporter praised writer-director Diao Yinan for this "exciting stylistic tour-de-force" and the film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

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NIGHT MOVES: Writer-director Kelly Reichardt has earned praise for Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, which showcased her "exquisite minimalism", so I'm very excited for Night Moves, which has been described as an eco-terrorism thriller. Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard star.

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ART AND CRAFT: I love stories about con artists, which makes <a href="http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208aa9c07f5df7d200065d-art-and-craft">Art and Craft</a> a must-see. The subject of the documentary is Mark Landis, who has forged paintings, like those by Matisse and Picasso for decades. But Landis never sold his work--he donated it to museums across the country. A 2011 NY Times article succinctly called him a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/design/12fraud.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">"Prolific Art Forger"</a>. In fact, that article inspired co-directors Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman to make film.

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FOOD CHAINS: We live in an incredibly food-obsessed time, which makes this Eva Longoria-executive produced documentary, Food Chains, highlighting farm laborers incredibly compelling. The filmmakers characterize the workers' plights as as "modern-day slavery" and Longoria has said, "There's more interest in food than ever before. Everyone is about organic and local and 'I don't eat gluten.' but no thought is put to the people who pick the food that feeds us all."

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THE NEWBURGH STING: Back in 2009, a group of men were <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/05/21/terror_plot_suspects_allegedly_upse.php">nabbed for plotting to bomb synagogues in the Bronx</a> and shoot down planes at the National Guard in Newburgh, NY. The arrests <a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/05/23/city_state_honor_agents_who_busted.php">were hailed in the War on Terror</a>, but then there were accusations the suspects were set up (<a href="http://gothamist.com/2009/09/18/were_bronx_bomb_suspects_entrapped.php">entrapment by fried chicken</a>, if you will). So I'm very curious about the documentary <a href="http://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208b42c07f5df7d20008cd-newburgh-sting">The Newburgh Sting</a>, which is a closer look at the suspects--now convicts serving long prison terms--and the case.

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BEGIN AGAIN: I still think about John Carney's low-fi love story Once, about the Dublin busker and immigrant cleaning woman, because it was so achingly intimate and kind of perfect. So I'm hopeful that Begin Again will have some of the magic, though it's a bigger production with Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley and Adam Levine. Upside: It's filmed in New York.

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HUMAN VOICE: Screen legend Sophia Loren in a 23-minute short film, Human Voice, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti and based on a Jean Cocteau play. Need we say more?

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KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON: Clark Terry is a jazz legend. He played in the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands and mentored Miles Davis and Quincy Jones. The documentary <a href="https://wwww.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/53208aeac07f5df7d200074d-keep-on-keepin-on">Keep On Keepin' On</a> follows his friendship with student Justin Kauflin, a talented blind 23-year-old pianist, as Terry battles health challenges and encourages to Justin to overcome his stage fright. After the April 19 world premiere, producer Quincy Jones and his friends will host a post-film performance by Justin Kauflin, four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Dianne Reeves, trumpeteer Roy Hargrove and more. American Express Card Members <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;280877554;107657274;u;pc=[TPAS_ID]" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/Tribeca_SP']);" rel="nofollow">have the exclusive opportunity to purchase tickets to the special event here</a>.

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